The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.